Bhubaneswar: With the emergence of Transfusion Medicine as a separate clinical and scientific branch in medical science, India has witnessed a significant progress in this domain in the last decade, an expert said on Friday. More and more blood centres, which are developing gradually across the country, are adopting new technology like automation, computerization and…
Bhubaneswar: Around one lakh are diagnosed with blood cancer in India every year, but can be defeated with proper treatment and the patient’s will to fight, medical experts said recently. “There is a need to dispel the notion that it is difficult to escape death if a person was afflicted with cancer,” Dr Hara Prasad…
Bhubaneswar: The fact that eradication of tuberculosis in India is a huge challenge has to be accepted and accordingly steps needs to be taken, Prof (Dr) Sachidananda Mohanty, Odisha’s director of Medical Education and Training (DMET) said on Thursday. “The diagnosis of tuberculosis cases in the eastern region has remained very low and there is…
Bhubaneswar: The two-day zonal task force meeting of the National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme (NTEP) for eastern region will be held at the Institute of Medical Sciences and SUM Hospital here on May 18 and 19. The meeting assumes importance as India has embarked upon the ambitious national strategic plan to eradicate tuberculosis from the country…
Bhubaneswar: The importance of forensic medicine was discussed at a Continuing Medical Education (CME) programme organised at the Institute of Medical Sciences and SUM Hospital here recently to mark the National Forensic Medicine Day. The subject of the CME, organised by the hospital’s department of FM and T, was ‘Multidimensional Aspects of Pre-conception and Pre-natal…
Bhubaneswar: A young team of surgeons at the Institute of Medical Sciences and SUM Hospital here have successfully performed a highly complex surgery on a cancer patient which is being billed as the first of its kind in Odisha. The team performed the complex surgery on a 55-year-old man suffering from pancreatic cancer which was…
Bhubaneswar: The Institute of Medical Sciences and SUM Hospital here will be setting up a centre to treat patients suffering from multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, according to its dean Prof (Dr) Sanghamitra Mishra. Multi-drug resistant TB has been a worrying factor for medical experts as efforts were on to counter the problem. The multi-drug resistant TB…
Bhubaneswar: Surgeons at the Institute of Medical Sciences and SUM Hospital, faculty of medical sciences of Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (SOA) here, have successfully conducted a surgery on a four-year-old boy suffering from nasal encephalocoeles, a rare type of birth defect affecting the brain with the lower part of the brain herniating into the nose. He…
Bhubaneswar: Eighty persons out of every one lakh population suffer from kidney related ailments while the number of such patients in the world is estimated to be around 800 million, said Prof. (Dr.) Biswaranjan Mohanty, head of the Department of Nephrology at the Institute of Medical Sciences and SUM Hospital here. “Around 50 per cent…
Bhubaneswar: Covid like challenges are likely to confront humanity again but scientists should be prepared to face the same and find ways to counter it, an eminent researcher said on Friday. “Health concerns like the outbreak of Covid-19 will emerge now and then, but it is for scientists to find answers to the challenge,” Prof….
